impondérable
French → English
(abstract) Unforeseeable factor: an unpredictable element that influences the course of events
L'organisation d'un mariage en extérieur comporte toujours une part d'impondérables liés à la météo.
(English) Organizing an outdoor wedding always involves a share of imponderable factors related to the weather.
Le projet a échoué à cause d'un impondérable technique que personne n'avait prévu.
(English) The project failed because of a technical imponderable that no one had foreseen.
(physics/archaic) Weightless: having no measurable physical weight or material substance
On pensait autrefois que la chaleur était due à un fluide élastique et impondérable.
(English) It was once thought that heat was due to an elastic and weightless fluid.
Certaines substances gazeuses ne laissent que des traces impondérables après combustion.
(English) Certain gaseous substances leave only weightless traces after combustion.
Entry ID: fr:en:impondérable · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary